An uncertain age : the politics of manhood in Kenya /

In twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans' contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas about age and masculinity.

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Main Author: Ocobock, Paul, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2017
Series:New African histories series.
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